Is this levelling up in action, Arts Council England?

Creative vision?! GIVE ME A BREAK. Pure gaslighting when the Tories have just dismantled arts and humanity degree funding in higher education, removing crucial talent pipelines 🤬

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Hard to believe it’s been 35 years. I remember the dread, my parents scanning the TV pictures, and the awful wait to see who came home. Never forgotten… #YNWA #JFT97

Gottfried Semper: “museums are the true teachers of a free people”, so if we don’t take care of them, what will we become? Huge cuts to Welsh museums, arts & culture, incl ⁦Welsh National Opera⁩, are devastating. Once it’s all gone, we won’t get it back… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

It’s been quite a week performing Mahler’s epic 8th Symphony. My thanks to Semyon Bychkov #NDRElbPhil Elbphilharmonie #KnabenchorHannover #PraguePhilharmonicChoir Rundfunkchor Berlin #NDRChor & my talented colleagues incl Carolyn Sampson 🇪🇺 & Adam Plachetka.

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Will the legally actionable article that’s just appeared on a notorious classical music blogger’s website be the end of his career raking muck? Time will tell. And yes, there’s screengrabs if he tries to edit it. 🍿

Last night’s BBC Radio 3 New Music Show with kate molleson featured the UK premiere of David Fennessy’s epic piece Conquest of the Useless, with Jack Sheen, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and yours truly. Now on BBC Sounds.

Herzog x Mahler x Caruso in the jungle. David Fennessy's epic Conquest of the Useless tonight BBC Radio 3 New Music Show perf. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Jennifer Johnston Jack Sheen

+ Phill Niblock, Olivia Block, Jan Martin Smørdal, Stuart MacRae, Schrey & Olencki, Rhodri D remixes

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We’re going to hold you to that, Steve Rotheram 😉 We’re really lucky in Merseyside to have a mayor that is supportive of culture, including the arts.

About last night… Mahler 8 with Semyon Bychkov NDR.de Elb Philharmonic Rundfunkchor Berlin #PraguePhilharmonicChoir #NDRVokalEnsemble #KnabenchorHannover Carolyn Sampson 🇪🇺 #CamillaTilling #MiriamKutrowatz #StefanieIranyi #AndreasSchager Adam Plachetka #NathanBerg Elbphilharmonie

Pappano: “There is a strange and misguided wokeism. If you’re supporting an opera in a church basement or something, that’s more important than the Royal Opera House, the English National Opera, the Welsh National Opera? Give me a break…” theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…

It’s a huge question, and this piece is just as enormous! We can’t wait to sing Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius with @Philharmonia Roderick Williams Daniel Norman Jennifer Johnston on May 16 at @Southbankcentre - find out more and buy tickets here - thebachchoir.org.uk/concerts/the-d…

Which Leda has the best pair? Asking for a friend…

L - newly excavated fresco in Pompeii
R - me as Leda in Strauss’ Die Liebe der Danae Salzburg Festival

Arts for arts sake, “orchestras are not social workers”: Sir Antonio Pappano’s view, that it’s the government’s job to educate children & create talent for the future & also audiences, runs contrary to Arts Council England’s strategy which refuses to recognise excellence.

Joining Elbphilharmonie, Jennifer Johnston sings #Mahler ’s Symphony No.8 at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg this evening, conducted by Semyon Bychkov. #hpvoice #operasinger

Learn more: ow.ly/6lvw50Re2k8

LET’S CREATE 🤣

Periods and menopause for singers are topics that aren’t discussed openly or enough, bravo Sophie Bevan

The Tories would like us to believe that William Wragg MP is not a security risk… 👀

All the Tories care about is money, they don’t (or don’t want to) understand the value of the arts and culture…